Body found in R.I. river ID'd as missing Brown student from Pa.

(Updated at 11:13 a.m.) PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Rhode Island medical examiner’s office says a body found in Providence is that of a Brown University student missing since last month.

Health Department spokeswoman Dara Chadwick says the body of 22-year-old Sunil Tripathi was identified Thursday morning through a forensic dental exam. The cause of death has not been determined.

Tripathi’s family says in a statement they feel “indescribable grief” but are grateful for the outpouring of support.

Tripathi’s body was found Tuesday by members of the Brown crew team in waters off India Point Park. Relatives of Tripathi, who’s from Bryn Mawr, Pa., had been searching for him with help from the FBI and Brown students since mid-March.

He had been on leave from the Ivy League school and was living with classmates in Providence.

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A body pulled from a river in Providence, Rhode Island, has been identified as missing Brown University student and Radnor High School graduate Sunil Tripathi, officials said.

A spokesman for the Rhode Island Department of Health Thursday morning said the positive identification was made after a forensic dental examination.

Tripathi, from the Bryn Mawr area of Radnor Township in Pennsylvania, had been missing since March 15.

No cause of death has been determined, and officials indicated those results could take months.

Tripathi was on leave from Brown University, and was living in an apartment with friends near the campus when he disappeared.

After the Boston Marathon bombings, social media outlets mistakenly spread rumors that Tripathi was one of the bombing suspects. The rumors were false.